Monthly archives for April, 2019
Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
This post originally appeared on scientificamerican.com.
An engineer friend of mine recently surprised me by saying he wasn’t sure whether the number 1 was prime or not. I was surprised because among mathematicians, 1 is universally regarded as non-prime.
The confusion begins with this definition a person might give of “prime”: a prime number [...]
What I Wrote in March 2019
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What I wrote
For Symmetry Magazine, I wrote about Entangle, an exhibit of artwork inspired by physics.
I interviewed Jill Pipher, the new president of the American Mathematical Society and thir [...]
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